Douglas Barricklow

Longtime Radio Producer & Creative Sound Pro. Swimmer. Aspire to Love Enemies and to Seek Peace. UT-Austin/Journalism '94.

[Douglas Barricklow @DeepCoffee]

@caldodge @Brcremer Are you a Christian? If so, why the use of the word “stupid.”

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I remember my Dad collecting coffee cans full of bicentennial quarters.

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

Do you have any personal memory of our American Bicentennial in 1976 and how it made you feel?

[Douglas Barricklow @DeepCoffee]

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[CNN @CNN]

In the North Atlantic Ocean, south of Greenland and Iceland, a large patch of water is doing something very strange. While the rest of the ocean heats up, it's been getting colder. A new study says it has the answer to this mystery — and it's an ominous sign the world is hurtling toward one of the most alarming climate tipping points. https://t.co/3IcVwmYXBy

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[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
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[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

NEW: Ken Paxton backed the DOGE cuts that weakened screwworm defenses and put Texas cattle at risk. https://t.co/5IwnvPhvSU

[Douglas Barricklow @DeepCoffee]

Last June, NEWSMAX was cheering for DOGE to cut funding to a program that contributed to protecting the U.S. from screwworms.

Not helpful.

[NEWSMAX @NEWSMAX]

A government agency spending $300 million in taxpayer dollars to produce sterilized flies sounds like a dream scenario for a DOGE team looking to cut waste, fraud, and abuse. https://t.co/3lGn15PndO

[Douglas Barricklow @DeepCoffee]

My father’s side of our family is Mormon. I don’t happen to be Mormon. I converted to Christianity in my late 20’s with influence from my United Methodist grandfather.

But I’ve known conservative Christians who say Mormons are a cult. It’s definitely a thing.

[Douglas Barricklow @DeepCoffee]

@Nat45672 @Miriam2626 I’ve had a couple of experiences with elderly dementia in my family, unfortunately. And I think Trump is showing early signs.

[Douglas Barricklow @DeepCoffee]

@Nat45672 @Miriam2626 Biden doesn’t have dementia. To this day, he speaks intelligently in his public appearances. In the debate, his issue seemed to me to be physical frailty. To the point he was out of breath.

Trump has early symptoms of dementia.

[Douglas Barricklow @DeepCoffee]

My father’s side of our family is Mormon. I don’t happen to be Mormon. I converted to Christianity in my late 20’s with influence from my United Methodist grandfather.

But I’ve known conservative Christians who say Mormons are a cult. It’s definitely a thing.

[Charles P. Pierce @CharlesPPierce]

Mormons discovering that Protestant fanatics consider them un-Christian do not know their own history.

[Douglas Barricklow @DeepCoffee]

Blade Runner (1982)

[Eric Alper 🎧 @ThatEricAlper]

What's your favorite movie from the 1980s?

[Jacques Loveall @JacquesLoveall]

“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”

~ Victor Borge

[Douglas Barricklow @DeepCoffee]

@JoyceCarolOates @Martina 👆

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[Bono’s Bible @BonosBible]

When we die, we are born.

That was Bono’s answer to Stephen Colbert’s “What happens when we die?” question — and it left some scratching their heads. But this wasn’t New Age or Eastern mysticism.

Bono reframed earthly life as labor pains. The struggles, losses, and incompleteness of this world are like contractions. Death, then, isn’t the end — it’s the moment of birth into real, full, eternal life with God.

Bono expanded that “these are labor pains,” alluding to Romans 8: “For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves… groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.”

Jesus used birth language (John 3) when He told Nicodemus we must be “born again” — not physically, but of the Spirit — to see the Kingdom of God. Bono takes it further: our first birth gets us into this temporary “womb” world. Our second birth (through Christ) prepares us. And physical death becomes the doorway to our true birth into resurrection life.

Bono has lost people close to him (most painfully his mother at 14). In Surrender, Bono keeps returning to the idea that this life is not our final home. We’re being prepared for something far greater.

📽️Bono on Stephen Colbert followed by “Lights of Home”

[Douglas Barricklow ✭ @SirDouglas71]

Prayers for Monsignor Don Fischer whose homilies were broadcast for years on @wrr101 on Sunday mornings.

Msgr Don has been in hospice since March and, according to the @PRI_Indwelling Facebook page, he is now experiencing a more significant physical decline.

✌️& 🫶 to him.

[Douglas Barricklow @DeepCoffee]

Just making your Twitter feed a slightly happier place today.

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[Douglas Barricklow @DeepCoffee]

Just making your Twitter feed a slightly happier place today.

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[Douglas Barricklow @DeepCoffee]

After “weighing in,” she needs to quickly tap out.

[Right Wing Watch @RightWingWatch]

Rep. Lauren Boebert weighs in on the government's release of UFO files, saying aliens are actually "fallen angels and Nephilim" from the Old Testament: "I do believe that this is more spiritual and, if you really want to go there, demonic."

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

ICE pulled a gun on a NY teenager, beat him, and then realized they got the wrong guy. Like other cases targeting citizens, ICE dumped him in a random location far from his home, bloody and injured.